Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Frictionary # 563

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5146. Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. (Paul Brodeur)

5147. One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectations. (Tony Bright)

5148. Tomorrow: the only thing we can really put off until tomorrow. (Michel Lauzière)

5149. Language is the only homeland. (Czeslaw Milosz)

5150. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. (Samuel Butler)

5151. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day. (Robert Quillen)*
*This quotation is frequently attributed to Robert Frost. Thanks to Barry Popik for the correction.
Mr. Popik's interesting site (The Big Apple) is at http://www.barrypopik.com/

5152. The moon lives on borrowed light
from the sun
when he hides from us. (Réjean Lévesque)

5153. When two slaves meet, they speak ill of freedom. (Arabian proverb)

5154. My sister had a baby boy and asked me to be the Godfather.  So I made her an offer she can't refuse. (funnyhumor)

5155. Money always ends up in the hands of the rich, although it briefly passes through a money laundering operation called the economy. (Robert Brault)

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

The Frictionary # 562

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5136. Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed. (P.D. James)

5137. I found my Christmas spirit,
T'was in the box
With the artificial tree. (Réjean Lévesque)

5138. Caroling: karaoke slavery. (Jim Gaffigan)

5139. Two tips for Christmas: 1) Forget the past, you can't change it. 2) Forget the present, I didn't get you one. (Swedish Canary)

5140. Polar bears are becoming extinct because they drink too much Coke. (?)

5141. North pole dances - $10. (Mike Baldwin - "Cornered")

5142. The worst gift is fruit cake.  There is only one fruit cake in the world, and people keep sending it to each other. (Johnny Carson)

5143. Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. (?)

5144. Every year, I ask Santa for a fat bank account and a slim body.  Maybe this year, he won't mix them up. (newfylover1)

5145. 12 Days of Christmas (...). The true love also provided a fully staffed aviary for the 184 birds that are amassed in just under two weeks. (Kevin Matthews)

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

The Frictionary # 561

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5126. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. (Christopher Morley)

5127. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.  There are no exceptions to this rule. (Stephen King)

5128. Everyone calls himself a friend,
but only a fool relies on it;
nothing is commoner than the name,
nothing rarer than the thing.  (Jean de La Fontaine)

5129. Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man. (Erica Jong)

5130. Given the economic crisis, I wrapped 2 batteries and wrote on the card "Gift not included".(Gilles Parent)

5131. Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table's ready". (Robin Williams)

5132. A spider weaves
his silver lies on my front door, and I
walk right in; the flies laugh.  (oaklungs)

5133. When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. (Philip K. Dick)

5134. Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. (Paul-Jean Toulet)

5135. Experts often possess more data than judgment. (Colin Powell)

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Sunday, December 07, 2014

The Frictionary # 560

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5116. If life must not be taken seriously, then so neither must death. (Samuel Butler)

5117. The world is (...) a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

5118. Indignation is a spark plug, not a fuel, and even less a road. (Simon Jodoin)

5119. Note to slef: always know where your glasses are before you take outyour lenses. (Tim Minchin)

5120. God said, "Don't eat from the tree of knowledge" and millions have embraced that philosophy...Mostly Americans. (John Wing)

5121. If God doesn't exist, I am God. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

5122. Man is fire, woman tow is; comes the devil and blows. (Miguel de Cervantes)

5123. Eight-year old boy in a suit
now all the flowers
smell like funerals.  (Coyote Sings)

5124. "You only live once!" - Pessimistic cat. (SixthFormPoet)

5125. Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. (Jodi Picoult)

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